Seismogenesis and Earthquake Forecasting: The Frank Evison Volume II

Abstract

First results of the regional earthquake likelihood models experiment -- New Zealand earthquake forecast testing centre -- The area skill score statistic for evaluating earthquake predictability experiments -- Space-time earthquake prediction : the error diagrams -- Identifying seismicity levels via Poisson Hidden Markov Models -- Distribution of seismicity before the larger earthquakes in Italy in the time interval 1994-2004 -- Predicting the human losses implied by predictions of earthquakes : Southern Sumatra and Central Chile -- Space- and time-dependent probabilities for earthquake fault systems from numerical simulations : feasibility study and first results -- Spatial separation of learge earthquakes, aftershocks, and background seismicity : analysis of interseismic and coseismic seismicity patterns in Souther California -- Earthquake source zones in Northeast India : seismic tomography, fractal dimensions and b value mapping -- Seismic hazard evaluation in Western Turkey as revealed by stress transfer and time-dependent probability calculations -- Correlation of static stress changes and earthquake occurrence in the North Aegean Region -- Aftershock sequences modeled with 3-D stress heterogeneity and rate-state seismicity equations : implications for crustal stress estimation -- Earthquake recurrence in simulated fault systems -- Continuous observation of groundwater and crustal deformation for forecasting Tonankai and Nankai earthquakes in Japan -- Anomalies of seismic activity and transient crustal deformations preceding the 2005 M 7.0 earthquake west of Fukuoka.